Personal Perspective Paper

Personal Perspective Paper

Personal Perspective Paper

Many aspects of our daily activities increasingly complicate our lives. The number of stressors one experiences through ever-increasing demands of trying to combine work and maintain a stable happy family takes practice, practice, and more practice. With the introduction of school to the matrix, it further disrupts the already delicate balance. One now has to find time for studying, research, class time and meetings. Skills in the time management arena would help to alleviate some of the feelings of being totally and completely overwhelmed. For help during the education journey, the University of Phoenix employs Learning Teams and Problem-based Learning techniques to educate their students. I will discuss the value of these 2 techniques as well as the value of having electronic resources available throughout the program.

Libraries are an excellent source of information. Small libraries, like the one at Aviano AB in Italy, can only keep so much information on-hand. They just do not have the space. When trying to do research on a deadline, such is the case with the Master's program with the University of Phoenix, ordering and waiting for material to arrive stifles the whole process. One simply does not have time to waste. Electronic resources (E-resources) make research and information gathering infinitely easier. While nothing replaces the good ole fashion manual searches at a library, E-resources are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The information is at one's fingertips just a few clicks away. The E-resources at the University of Phoenix allows detailed searches on virtually thousands of documents, books, magazine articles, periodicals, and encyclopedias in numerous databases. Key word searches narrow the selection. The software supporting these resources will even format the reference should the information